As writer Rick Remender’s Marvel event story crosses the halfway mark, issue 5 yields a surprisingly uneven reading experience. Opening and closing on a couple of high-impact beats, it also mechanically carves a wheel-spinning valley right down the middle. [Read more…] about “AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #5: This Side Up”

While this isn’t the first issue to set up Marvel’s next event, Uncanny Avengers #24 marks the first issue that officially places one of Rick Remender’s titles (who is going to write the event) on the path towards Axis. This is the first issue not directly involved with the excellent Apocalypse Twins/Kang arc that Remender has been writing for over two years. Still picking up the pieces from the major fallout of that story, we revert back to the Red Skull plot point introduced during the first arc of this title (which was great by the way). So how does this title do picking up where the last arc left off and set things up for Marvel’s next event. [Read more…] about Uncanny Avengers #24 Review! The Road to Axis Continues

Of all the Marvel NOW! titles to launch in the wake of Avengers vs. X-Men, Uncanny Avengers is undoubtedly the lynchpin. While All-New X-Men embraces the plight of the X-Men following the events of AvX, and Uncanny X-Men continues the struggle of Cyclops and his fellow outlaws, nothing touches on mutant/human relations like Uncanny Avengers. Following the tyrannical (albeit well-intentioned) world takeover from the mutant Phoenix Five, anti-mutant sentiment is at all time high, meaning if the Avengers and X-Men can’t come together there will be a riot goin’ on. [Read more…] about Uncanny Avengers NOW!: Avengers for Unity